Tried To Be A Man Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Em]'Round here we don't need
no one trying to set us straight
I got a redneck in plaid suit,
he's on TV real late
Balalaikas tolling,
Sheba plays the flute
There's Communists and Capitalists

[Verse 2]
They all think I'm cute
[A]You know, I'm out of rehab
You know, I'm with the band
Any[Em]way I think it's time to

[Verse 3]
say exactly what I am
[D]'Cause I tried to be [A]a man
But [Em]that's what I'm not
meant to be
You know I [C]tried to be [G]a man
But that's not what [Em]I came to be

[Verse 4]
[Em]
Well, there's seven years
of famine
And seven years of drought
Seven years of Sam
You know what I'm talking about
And it won't take very long
before it's hard to tell
If they're trying to take you back with him
To heaven or to [A]hell

[Verse 5]
They make her so pretty [A]She
won't be pretty long
She'll be [Em]rising out of the sea
of planet Babylon

[Verse 6]
[D]'Cause she tried to be [A]a man
That's not what she [Em]came to be
Because [C]she tried to be [G]a man
That's not what she [Em]came to be

[Interlude 1]
[F#]
[Em][A]
[Em][Am][Em]

[Verse 7]
She's living [Em]down on Bronson
She never blinks [G]her [Am]eyes
[Em]The family in Wisconsin
Look like they're [B]hypnotized
I [Em]get a strange sensation
When I lay down in my bed
In fact, if you could drop me
on the corner here

[Verse 8]
Instead [A]on planet Babylon
That's where they wrote the [Am]book
There's [Em]something here about you,
come on and take a [D]look

[Verse 9]
You tried to be [A]a man
But that's not what you [Am]came to [Em]be
It says, it says, it says, it says
You [C]tried to be a [G]man
But that's not what you [Em]came to be

[Verse 10]
Came to [Em]be
What you came to be

[Outro 1]
That's not what you came to be
[Em][A][Em]